Editing Atropos (section)

==Origin==
Her origin, along with the other two fates, is uncertain, although some called them the daughters of the night. It is clear, however, that at a certain period they ceased to be concerned only with death and also became those powers who decided what may happen to individuals. Although [[Zeus]] was the chief Greek god and their father, he was still subject to the decisions of the Fates, and thus the executor of destiny, rather than its source. According to [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]],'' Atropos and her sisters (Clotho and Lachesis) were the daughters of [[Erebus]] (Darkness) and [[Nyx (mythology)|Nyx]] (Night) and sisters to [[Thanatos]] and [[Hypnos]],  though later in the same work (ll. 901–906) they are said to have been of Zeus and [[Themis]].